Empty Californian style skate bowls are usually thoughts left to the neighbourhoods of the US – especially against the clean cut council made skate parks here in Australia. But hidden in the Northern Beaches is an abandoned, council surveillance room — a quarry type dig out, where a small community of skate kids pile in. 

Louise Whelan, a local photographer known for exploring Sydney’s subcultures, took to the graffiti covered room showing the skate community as it is. A community that denies conformaty, plays by their own rules, and just wants to have fun their own way.

Photos by Louise Whelan